epydoc/3.0.1+dfsg-13 and 3.0.1+dfsg-14 have been uploaded by Kenneth J.
Pronovici which fixes nondeterministic ordering issues in generated
documentation and removes memory addresses. Original patches (#825968
and #827416) by Sascha Steinbiss.

With this upload of texlive-bin we decided to stop keeping our patched fork of
as most of the patches for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support had been integrated
upstream already, and the last one (making FORCE_SOURCE_DATE default to 1)
had been refused. So, we are now going to let the archive be rebuilt against
unstable’s texlive-bin and see how many packages will become unreproducible
with this change; once enough data will be collected we will ponder whether
FORCE_SOURCE_DATE should be exported by helper tools (such as debhelper) or
manually exported by every package that needs it.

(For those wondering: we still recommend to follow SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH always
and don’t recommend other projects to implement FORCE_SOURCE_DATE…)

diffoscope development

strip-nondeterminism development

reprotest development

Ceridwen filed an Intent To Package (ITP) bug for reprotest as #827293.

tests.reproducible-builds.org

Mattia Rizzolo uploaded pbuilder 0.225 to unstable, providing built-in
support for eatmydata. We’re planning to use it in armhf and i386 builders
where we don’t build in tmpfs, to increase the build speed some more.

Valery Young reworked the appearance of the package page, hopefully making them more
intuitive and usable. In the process she changed the script generating them
to use a real templating system, thus improving
maintenance for the future.

Holger adjusted the scheduler to reschedule packages in state ‘depwait’ after
two days instead of three.

Mattia added the bug title next to the bug numbers in the notes.

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Mattia Rizzolo, Reiner Herrmann, Ed Maste and Holger Levsen and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible builds folks on IRC.